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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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